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History of Soybeans in Business and Trade

Major periods in Soybean History
Before 7th century B.C.; Mentioned in Chinas earliest classic book
A.D. 100 Few Mentions in Chinese medical Texts
1275 July 26 - First mentioned in texts by Buddhist Saint Nichiren Shnin with people leaving edamame as gift in temples
1406 - The Ming dynasty famine herbal titled Jihuang.. three uses are recommended for times of famine only.
1620 - Maodou (Chinese characters: hairy + bean) are first mentioned in the Runan pushi [An account of the vegetable gardens at
Runan], by Zhou Wenhua. "Maodou has green, hairy pods.
1855 April 12 - T.V. Peticolas of Mount Carmel, Ohio, is the first Westerner to mention green vegetable soybeans. In an article on
soybeans in the Country Gentleman (p. 12) he writes: "They are inconvenient to use green, being so difficult to hull."
1856 - Only a year later, at least two Americans have apparently figured out how to shell them with ease, and to enjoy them.
1890 Dec. - The first large-seeded vegetable-type soybean variety arrives in America. Named Edamam, it was introduced from Japan
by Charles C. Georgeson, who had been a professor of agriculture in Japan
1915 Jan. - William J. Morse (of USDA's Office of Forage Crop Investigations), the man most responsible for introducing green
vegetable soybeans and vegetable type soybeans to the United States, mentions them for the first time in a USDA publication
1917 - World War I, USDA researchers conduct tests on many soybean varieties in search of an inexpensive source of protein Hahto
and Easy Cook are the first brands.
1923 March - The Soybean, by Charles V. Piper and William J. Morse, published by McGraw-Hill (329 p.), is the first major book written
about this plant in the United States
1929-32 - During the USDA sponsored Dorsett-Morse Expedition to East Asia

History of Soybeans in Business and Trade

The first USDA sponsored voyage into the east revealed five things about soy
1) Soybeans are widely "used as a green vegetable" or as "green vegetable beans," served in the pods.
(2) The seeds for these soybean varieties are sold by horticultural seed companies, are listed with the garden beans in
their seed catalogs, and are larger and sweeter than regular soybeans. On 24 April 1929, while in Tokyo, Dorsett made
the first edamam purchases, seven varieties with "Edamame" in the varietal name from T. Sakata & Co. They
eventually collected more than 100 varieties of large-seeded vegetable-type soybeans (other suppliers included
Yamato Seed Co. in Tokyo) and had them grown for a year at USDA's Arlington Farm in Virginia.
(3) Edamame account for less than 1% (actually 0.8%) of all the soybeans used in Japan.
(4) Green soybeans are salt-pickled in the pod in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island.
(5) The soybean seeds are planted at intervals of several weeks in the same field, then, when ready, the plants are
uprooted and sold in bundles.
1929 July 20 - Letter from William Morse in Tokyo is read before the attendees at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American
Soybean Association in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and later published in the Proceedings of the American Soybean Assoc. (Vol.
2., p. 50-52).
1930s see a rise in the amount of research and farmland dedicated to making products from soy.
1935 Dec. - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, is the first person on record to can green vegetable soybeans, or
to consider harvesting them mechanically
1936 July - Green Shelled Soy Beans (canned) are first sold in the USA by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Food Co. in

History of Soybeans in Business and Trade

1936 July - Green Shelled Soy Beans (canned) are first sold in the USA by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Food Co. in
Battle Creek, Michigan. This is the earliest known commercial green vegetable soybean product in the USA

Non Food Research

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During the 1930s William Morse and the University of Illinois took the lead in popularizing both green-vegetable soybeans and
vegetable-type soybeans in the USA.
1941-1945 - During World War II, green vegetable soybeans are grown in Victory Gardens in the Midwest and at least six new
canned products are introduced. By 1945 some 44 large-seeded vegetable-type soybean varieties have been named and released
in the USA.
1944 Sept. - The first English-language advertisement for green vegetable soybeans appears in Soybean Digest (p. 61). Titled
"Meet the vegetable cow," it is a full-page, black-and-white ad run by Dr. Harry Miller of the International Nutrition Laboratory, and a
former student of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. It shows the head of a cow made entirely from soybeans. The horns, forelock, parts
surrounding the eyes, nostrils, and mouth are made of soybeans in their [green] pods.
1946 - The Japanese government (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries) starts keeping statistics on domestic edamam
area, production (weight including pods), and yield. In 1946 these figures were about 7,000 ha and 30,000 metric tons (tonnes).
Yields peaked in 1969 at almost 10 tonnes/ha. In about 1982 both area (14,000 ha) and production (122,000 tonnes) peaked, then
began a very slow decline as imports rose dramatically (Lumpkin & Konovsky 1991, p. 123).
In the United States, the period from 1935 to 1947 saw the first wave of interest in green vegetable soybeans and vegetable-type
soybeans. But after World War II, interest almost disappeared. A second and even larger wave of interest began in the late 1960s
and has continued to grow.

The Second Wave of interest in Soy

During the 1960s a Japanese business owner began importing soybeans and
frozen soybeans and selling them number of Asian restaurants. Mr. Noritoshi
Kanai, President of Mutual Trading Co. (MTC, Los Angeles, California)
The 1970s soy trade was dominated by Taiwan as the lead exporter and Japan
as the main importer.
The 1980s began the wave of the sushi boom which was popularized by the
television mini-series Shogun. The show and book it was based on generated
an interest in Japanese culture and lifestyle. This led many people to Japanese
restaurants where they ate soy for the first time as edamame with Sake.

Research meats Industry Again

The 1980s also saw a resurgence of research
done around soybeans. Not only in the U.S. but
in Taiwan as well.

It takes just One

1987 - Reiko Weston, a Japanese woman who owns Fuji-Ya, a Japanese restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, decides she
wants to try growing edamam in Minnesota rather than paying more for an imported product. The same business savvy that
earned her the titles of U.S. and Minnesota 'Businesswoman of the Year' sparked research in 1987 by Jim Lambert of the
Jameson-Williams Company into the viability of raising this new crop. Unfortunately, Weston died shortly before the first year's
crop was harvested." Jameson-Williams steadily increases their production of edamam from 7,000 pounds in 1988 to the
350,000 pounds in 1990. In Nov. 1990 Lambert describes Jameson-Williams as "the only commercial producer of edamam in the
U.S." He has experimented with hundreds of edamam varieties.
1991 June - Yamato Flight Kitchen of Burlingame, California, starts serving edamam on Japan Airlines flights from San
Francisco to Japan
1991 Aug. 5 - An article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) states that Jameson-Williams' company name has been
changed to Minnesota Edamame Co. The Nishimoto Trading Co. of Tokyo likes the taste and look of these green soybeans so
much that they decided last week to place more than $100,000 worth of their bagging and packaging equipment in the Minnesota
Edamam plant. In September, Minnesota Edamam will start using Nishimoto's equipment to ship 1 million pounds of partially
processed immature soybeans to Japan. That's a big jump from the 7,000 pounds shipped in 1988. Minnesota Edamam has
contracts to supply Nishimoto with 3 million pounds of the soybeans from the 1992 Minnesota crop, 6 million pounds in 1993 and
15 million pounds by 1996. Unfortunately, quality problems in Minnesota prevented these rosy predictions from coming true.

The 1990s
1994 July 1 - Minnesota Edamame is renamed SunRich Foods. Their 1994 edamam crop is a record 750,000 lb - but still not
enough to meet demand
Other important "firsts" among commercial products after 1990:
1995 Jan. - Sweet Beans (SunRich Inc., Minnesota).
1996 Jan. - Freshlike Baby Broccoli Blend (with 40% green soybeans; Dean Foods Vegetable Co.).
1996 Dec. - Frozen Organic Sweet Beans (Sno Pac Foods, Inc
1997 June - Birds Eye Baby Broccoli Blend (Dean Foods Vegetable Co.).
1997 Sept. - Trader Joe's Edamam (frozen in the pods, imported from China by Seaside Farms).
1998 Feb. - Cold Mountain Eda-Mame (Mutual Trading Co., Inc., frozen).
1999 April - Edamam - Blanched Soybeans (retail or foodservice; Seapoint Farms, formerly Seaside Farms).
1999 Aug. - Melissa's Soybeans (Edamam) (Melissa's World Variety Produce). 1999 Oct. - Edamam (Frieda's, Inc.).
2000 May - Freeze-Dried Green Soybeans in Salsa, Indian Spice, and Sweet & Sour flavors (Eat Your Heart Out, New York; the
first freeze-dried and the first flavored or spicy edamam
In 1999 at least 8 new edamam products were introduced, followed by 9 in the year 2000, and 5 more by May 2001.
2001 - The U.S. company with the most innovative and extensive line of edamam products, the best and most colorful graphics
(labels and ads), and the most extensive advertising, is Seapoint Farms of Huntington Beach, California, founded in 1997 by
soyfoods pioneer Kevin Cross.

The Golden Millenia

Crop
Percent
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
Cotton
Other
Sorghum
Rice
Sunflower
Barley
Oats

36
29
21
4
4
3
1
1
1
1

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The Future of Soy

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